Presidential Chronicles

Episode #265: William Taft #10: Dreams Do Come True (1920-1930)


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William Taft #10: Dreams Do Come True (1920-1930); Topics covered include: 1920 Election, Warren Harding offers Taft a position on the Supreme Court, appointed Chief Justice, reforms for the Federal judiciary, specific cases of note, Taft becomes ill, resigns from the Court, his death, and perspective


Key people: Warren Harding, Edward White, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harry Daugherty, John Marshall, Frank Myers, Andrew Johnson, Edwin Stanton, Ray Olmstead, Louis Brandeis, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Robert Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, and Helen Taft


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Presidential ChroniclesBy David Fisher